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Just like modern people, they are after peace, stopping war.

And suppose you stop war. Can you stop death? Then why you are after stopping war? Why you forget your real business?

They are after stopping war. And suppose war is stopped,

nobody takes to war anymore. Now, how you'll

stop the war of this material nature?

Prabhupada: Just like modern people, they are after peace, stopping war. And suppose you stop war. Can you stop death? Then why you are after stopping war? Why you forget your real business? They are after stopping war. And suppose war is stopped, nobody takes to war anymore. Now, how you'll stop the war of this material nature? She is fighting always with you. From the beginning of your birth she is fighting. A child is born and the material nature is killing this child every moment. The child has grown, two years old. That means material nature has already killed this child for two years. How you can stop this? These nonsense, they do not consider these cases. Suppose if I stop war, there will be no more war, no more disease. No more disease cannot be possible. You can make by some way no more war... That is also not possible. Anyway, if you stop it by the efforts of the United Nations, a veke(?) by some way no more war... That is also not possible. Anyway, if you stop it by the efforts of the United Nations, a very large organization, then how you are going to stop death? What is your proposition? There is no, nothing. So what is the use of stopping war? Suppose in the war some young men die. That's all right, so many young men die within the hospital in the disease. And sometimes old men, they do not die even in the war.
So life and death is not in your hand. You don't think that stopping this or increasing this, you'll be able to stop all inconveniences. Just take, for example, this boy, Virabhadra was struck by a car. All right, he was in the street. But another boy, he fell on the staircase and broke his leg. He was at home; he met accident. So how you can stop this, the onslaught of material nature? Everywhere, either you are at home or you are outside, either you are young, you are old, either you are scientist or philosopher. Whatever you are, the material nature will not allow you to live in peaceful condition. That is her business. Daivi hy esa gunamayi mama maya duratyaya. You cannot live peacefully, that is not possible. The only peaceful condition is that you become in Krsna consciousness. There is no other alternative. Kalau nasty eva nasty eva nasty eva gatir anyatha. Lord Caitanya clearly says, "There is no other alternative, no other alternative, no other alternative." It is not that our Krsna consciousness movement is one of the so many movements. No. It is the only one movement that can give peace and life and prosperity to the people.

[Bhagavad-gita 2.26 Lecture, Los Angeles, December 6, 1968]